• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.2077-2081
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• 2005

A symmetry breaking nonlinear fluid flow in a two-dimensional wall-driven square cavity taking symmetric boundary condition after some transients has been investigated numerically. It has been shown that the symmetry breaking critical Reynolds number is dependent on the time history of the boundary condition. The cavity has at least three stable steady state solutions for Re=300-375, and two stable solutions if Re>400. Also, it has also been showed that a particular solution among several possible solutions can be obtained by a controlled boundary condition.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.199-210
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• 2001

Axially compressed circular cylinders repeat symmetry-breaking bifurcation in the postbuckling region. There exist stable equilibria with all symmetry broken in the buckled configuration, and the minimum postbuckling strength is attained at the deep bottom of closely spaced equilibrium branches. The load level corresponding to such postbuckling stable solutions is usually much lower than the initial buckling load and may serve as a strength limit in shell stability design. The primary concern in the present paper is to compute these possible postbuckling stable solutions at the deep bottom of the postbuckling region. Two computational approaches are used for this purpose. One is the application of individual procedures in computational bifurcation theory. Path-tracing, pinpointing bifurcation points and (local) branch-switching are all applied to follow carefully the postbuckling branches with the decreasing load in order to attain the target at the bottom of the postbuckling region. The buckled shell configuration loses its symmetry stepwise after each (local) branch-switching procedure. The other is to introduce the idea of path jumping (namely, generalized global branch-switching) with static imperfection. The static response of the cylinder under two-parameter loading is computed to enable a direct access to postbuckling equilibria from the prebuckling state. In the numerical example of an elastic perfect circular cylinder, stable postbuckling solutions are computed in these two approaches. It is demonstrated that a direct path jump from the undeformed state to postbuckling stable equilibria is possible for an appropriate choice of static perturbations.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.2965-2972
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• 1996

Transitional flow in an obstructed channel is investigated using numerical simulation. Two-dimensional thin obstacles are mounted symmetrically in the vertical direction and periodically in the streamwise direction. Flow separation occurs at the tip of the sharp obstacles. Depending on the Reynolds number, the flow undergoes Hopf bifurcation as the primary instability leading to a two-dimensional unsteady periodic solution. At higher Reynolds numbers, the unsteady solution exhibits a symmetry-breaking bifurcation which results in an unsteady asymmetric solution. The results are compared with experiments currently available, and show a good agreement.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -3
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• pp.1634-1637
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• 2002

We examine the oscillatory modes generated by the Hopf bifurcations of non-origin equilibrium points in the four-coupled oscillator system. The Hopf bifurcations of the equilibrium points and the generated oscillatory modes are classified. By numerical bifurcation analysis we observe various interesting synchronized states caused by symmetry-breaking bifurcations.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.265-280
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• 2004

This paper presents some fundamental results on the dynamics of the periodic Karman wake behind a circular cylinder. The wake is treated like a dynamical system. External forcing is then introduced and its effect investigated. The main result obtained is the following. Perturbation of the wake, by controlled cylinder oscillations in the flow direction at a frequency equal to the Karman vortex shedding frequency, leads to instability of the Karman vortex structure. The resulting wake structure oscillates at half the original Karman vortex shedding frequency. For higher frequency excitation the primary pattern involves symmetry breaking of the initially shed symmetric vortex pairs. The Karman shedding phenomenon can be modeled by a nonlinear oscillator. The symmetrical flow perturbations resulting from the periodic cylinder excitation can also be similarly represented by a nonlinear oscillator. The oscillators represent two flow modes. By considering these two nonlinear oscillators, one having inline shedding symmetry and the other having the Karman wake spatio-temporal symmetry, the possible symmetries of subsequent flow perturbations resulting from the modal interaction are determined. A theoretical analysis based on symmetry (group) theory is presented. The analysis confirms the occurrence of a period-doubling instability, which is responsible for the frequency halving phenomenon observed in the experiments. Finally it is remarked that the present findings have important implications for vortex shedding control. Perturbations in the inflow direction introduce 'control' of the Karman wake by inducing a bifurcation which forces the transfer of energy to a lower frequency which is far from the original Karman frequency.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.140-145
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• 2018

본 연구는 두점식 선박 계류시스템의 종방향 외력에 대한 비선형 동적거동 해석을 수행하였다. 특정 입력 매개변수에 대한 카오스 운동과 한계주기궤도 등의 비선형 거동의 특성을 연구하였다. 주로 비선형복원력은 계류시스템의 강한 비선형성과 동적거동의 다양성을 제공한다. 계의 운동방정식 시뮬레이션에 사용된 수치 적분기는 4차 룽게쿠타법이다. 외력진폭과 주파수를 변화시킬 때 분기 그림과 동적불안정 현상들을 볼 수 있다. 외력의 주파수(진동수)가 0.4 rad/s인 경우 수많은 혼돈상태 점들 사이에 주기창이라 불리는 안정적인 주기해가 관측된다. 주파수가 0.7 rad/s인 경우는 외력진폭이 1.0을 초과할 때 혼돈 영역이 갑자기 증가한다. 주파수가 1.0 rad/s인 경우는 주파수가 0.4 rad/s 및 0.7 rad/s인 경우와 비교해 볼 때, 혼돈 운동이 약화된다. 아울러, 두점식 계류시스템은 각 매개변수에서 준주기 운동, 한계주기궤도, 대칭성의 깨짐과 같은 다양한 정상상태의 궤적이 관측된다.